What's the secret of a pendulum clock?

Qin Nianbing gradually approached the wall and stretched out his hand to touch it.

The cold touch made Qin Nianbing sure that it was a dead thing.

It's a symmetrical world, and it's a road axis.

This inn is located in the middle of the road, and the interior of the hotel is also symmetrical, except for the ...... This pendulum clock.

You have to save him.

Touching the pendulum clock, Qin Nianbing thought of Duan Xu's young face.

After meeting him, he suddenly fell into a world that he had never imagined.

And what about him?

How long has he struggled in such a world?

Qin Nianbing is a police officer, and he is an excellent criminal policeman.

She has been observing Duan Xu's facial expressions and movements, and the details of her behavior.

And then...... She found something bizarre and terrifying that appeared on Duan Xu's body.

She didn't know if Duan Xu knew it, if she could get out of here alive this time, just ask him......

Qin Nianbing thought.

Because of this discovery, Qin Nianbing inevitably became a little curious about Duan Xu.

Who the hell is he?

Retracting his slightly divergent thoughts, Qin Nianbing focused his attention on the pendulum clock.

Although it is a clock, it has no time scale in the dial at all, only one to eight or eight numerals.

Qin Nianbing also noticed that these numbers changed in real time, for example, before the death of the fourth, there were nine numbers in the dial.

Wait a minute......

Qin Nianbing's eyes suddenly lit up.

Before each round of the game, the bell rings several times, is there any secret to this?

Qin Nianbing fell into deep thought, she didn't notice at all that the light in the room was getting darker and darker.

The dim moonlight shone in through the windows on both sides, and the wind outside the windows grew louder and louder.

The furnishings of the hotel seem to have suddenly gone through a long period of time, quietly becoming old, the floor, the wooden chairs, the card table...... It's all dusty.

Qin Nianbing was already completely immersed in the puzzle of the pendulum clock, and she tried hard to recall that when she first entered the hotel, it seemed to ring three times, and when the female voice announced the start of the game, it sounded four times.

When he and Duan Xu joined, when they started a new round of games, they rang six sounds......

Are these bells just a signal for the start of the game?

While Qin Nianbing was pondering, some strange claw marks had already appeared on the walls of the room.

These claw marks have some dark red blood left, which is already visible to the naked eye.

This inn seems to have passed a hundred years suddenly......

That's it!

The pendulum clock has suddenly struck!

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

"Bell—"

The sudden bell sounded like a thunderclap, completely waking up Qin Nianbing, who was immersed in his thoughts.

And the moment she came back to her senses, the inn, which had become old and old, strangely reverted to its previous appearance.

Qin Nianbing turned her head suddenly, and everyone in the room was watching her from behind, although she didn't speak, her eyes were extremely weird.

Suddenly!

Suddenly there was a click in the quiet inn.

The crowd will look in unison at the place where the sound came from.

Is that...... Number Five.

Number Five pointed to his face suspiciously, and he suddenly noticed that everyone looked at him with a look of fear on their faces!

"What......" He had just asked, when he heard another click......

This time, the Five saw it.

The flesh on his face is eerily rotting and falling!

"Ah!!h Five's eyes widened, and he covered his face in horror, but to no avail.

Smack......

Smack......

The sound of falling is endless.

Nose......

Ear......

Eye......

Chin......

More and more flesh began to fall down.

Five reaches out in desperation to grab something, but soon, his hand falls to the ground.

In less than a minute, Number Five was completely rotten and turned into a pile of rotten meat.

Qin Nianbing's heartbeat accelerated sharply, she hadn't seen a more terrifying and disgusting picture than this, but it was the first time she had seen such a strange thing.

"He's dead! Why did he die? How so? ”

Number Two looked at the non-human form of Number Five on the ground in horror and howled bitterly.

His words also reminded Qin Nianbing, who was in shock and fear, to ...... Why did he die?

Why did Five die?

Wait, before he died, the pendulum clock suddenly rang, and it rang...... Six tones!

Qin Nianbing seemed to have suddenly grasped something, and suddenly looked back at the pendulum clock.

Bell...... Game...... Punish......

Qin Nianbing didn't notice that there was a terrifying gaze condensed on her!

Just as the owner of that gaze was about to make a move, Qin Nianbing suddenly turned his head sideways.

Her eyes were calm and threatening, and she clenched her fists with a crisp bone sound: "Found you." ”

"Get him back, or I'll kill you."

……

How to break the game?

Duan Xu thought calmly.

The distorted ghost was still approaching, and the distance between it and him was only about ten meters.

The knot could only be stopped for a while, because he had to go back, back to the inn.

The number of days of life simply cannot support that time, and even more, he simply cannot use up all the days of life.

However, Duan Xu did not fall into despair.

Even if he doesn't have the number of days to live, he has the last hole card.

That piece ...... The wooden plaque obtained from Huai Village.

Although he had never used it, the first time he held it, Duan Xu's mind already appeared about its function and the cost of using it.

It is not a knot at all, but a ...... The curse that is still alive.

Using it here, Duan Xu didn't feel that he could fully afford that price.

So, he had to discover the loopholes in this strange world.

It's a symmetrical world, it's visible to the naked eye.

Does the ghost not far away have anything to do with symmetry?

Duan Xu stared at it.

Suddenly, Duan Xu's gaze froze.

There are strange places...... There...... Asymmetry!

The street lamp where the ghost appeared!

The world is based on this highway as the axis of symmetry.

Then, on the opposite side of the street lamp where the ghost appeared, there should definitely be a street lamp!

However, the truth is ...... No.

The loophole is there!

As long as you get through the current situation, go back to the inn, win the game in the hotel, and go to the place where there are no corresponding street lights, you may be able to escape this world.

The question is, how do you distance yourself from this ghost and drag five minutes into it?

If you want to distance yourself from it, you can only go in the opposite direction, but ......

Duan Xu suddenly laughed, he almost cried stupidly by himself.

Mindset thing...... It's really unexpected.

It turns out that the answer is so simple?

If you follow the rules of that inn, since it is not stated, it is allowed.

In this case, there is no rule that you cannot turn when walking backwards.

Wouldn't I just turn a corner and go back in the direction I came?

Duan Xu suddenly looked at the slow-moving ghost, and suddenly felt that the other party was a little pitiful.

You go slowly, I'll go back first......